Camping

What's the fastest camping chair areas besides Barbie Club?

What exactly do you mean by fastest?

Wouldn't the primary concern be which pays the most?

Then which has open seats, and which sims are most stable.

Is there a longer term forced disconnect beyond the standard timeout period?

Think thats what fastest means.. The fastest to give out cash..

Some of these places are really slow to load the geometry and the textures because they are in prim hog and texture hog surroundings..

Then add in the slowness of having a nearly full sim like some of the places have, and what slow means becomes questionable.

I find it odd that the some of places at the top of the popular places list are packed - and have camp chairs and other free money claims in their descriptions, but go down just a few to the 4th or 5th place in the list and their might be zero people in the entire sim, even though they also have have camp chairs and other free money claims in their descriptions.

I've made about 1450 in 20 hours at Quki Casino.
I pay out around 1k to get the money chairs up to around L$25 per 12 min.
Which gives back around 2500 after 20 hours.

But its still a gamble on server up-time because you have to pay out about 1k to get the chairs up to a high payout price. If the game shuts down before you make your money back then your out of luck.
In the long run it's far more profitable if you can stay on. The server is pretty stable as far as I can see. I got lucky and made back the money I spent and then some before that global attack recently.
Also I talked to the owner just after that attack and she/he said they are starting to lose money on the place so I don't know how long it will be there.
The alternative to that is Virtual Games. But VR has an annoying system setup where you have to type in some word it gives you every 3 hours, just to stay on the seat.
Oh both places, if you stand up, your pay rate goes bad to the default.

It's a little risk but it pays better. Also I was thinking of building a VB program to do a screen capture of the text that we are supposed to type in every 3 hours at VR. Then use Image to Text OLE to captuer the word you have to type. Then have the program send key input to the SL.exe and input the text. If that works I won't have to be there every 3 hours.
But I don't know if its even worth trying. Quki doesn't have that anyway.

P.S.- The reason for the missing L$50 is because there is also a degrade system that makes the pay rate go down slowly over time. Thou it seems, and I was told, that the higher your pay rate is, the less this effects you.
Also another note about those. I was making about 25 per 12 minutes but a good rule of thumb is it splits. If I found a normal money chair that payed 15 per 10 minutes instead. I would have made the same amount in 20 hours. (Let me know if anyone see's any $15 per 10's out there.)

That's 72.5 lindens an hour, or at current rates, 27 cents an hour.

There are people in sweatshops making more than that.

sigh...

I'm glad someone said it.

Yeah well, sweatshop workers are working for that 27 cents, where these people are just sitting.

As much as I think camping chairs are evil, I was thinking the same thing

C'mon... If you could sign up for a service that would pay you US $0.15 per hour for sleeping in your bed between, say 2am and 6am, why wouldn't you?

After a whole month - that's like a free Mountain Dew! <G>

Of course, what do camping chairs (or sleeping) have to do with building community? Ziltch.

27 cents an hour is 2,365.2 dollars a year. What's wrong with that?

You can have that alt running all the time with no significant perform hit on a decent computer and video card, running your main character at the same time, doing your surfing or word processing or whatever,

A 3+ Pentium with a gig of ram can successfully run at least 5 avatars sitting in camp chars. Just turn the shiny off, set draw distance to 64, turn avatar, object, terrain detail down to minimum, etc.

You put all the alts on each other's friends list, so if one gets to the money spot it can call the rest.

Haveing found decent money spots you make one shortcut that runs a batch file with command lines like


If the payout amounts advertised for the free money accounts were honest, the situation would be much improved for the campers, but so far as I know, the claimed amounts aren't really received.

There are programs that willl keep those Second Life instances alive while they are in the background, so you can still use the computer to surf the net or answer your emial.

Wow think about it 0.27 or from American Money to yen 0.20.

OMG if people do stay over night in money chair/dance pads is it worth it? the electric will far out cost the value of keeping your computer on all night......I just had this thought what you think?!

The power bill.

Bah. Beat me to it.

One would hope that the power bill would be more than the money gained... otherwise, there is something seriously wrong with a world where you can end up better off by leaving an electronic device on, using power to achieve nothing whatsoever.

(Not that there's nothing seriously wrong with the world as it is.)

Hi Jeffrey, do you have any convenient statistics on that power bill figure you claim is more than 27 cents an hour?

Suppose I was leaving the the computer on 24.7 anyway, the marginal cost of the additional energy required to compute Second Life has to be fairly small. The monitor can be left off when the alts are being checked for disconnect or when not otherwise needed.

What if you are running five alts at once, pulling in 1.35 dollars an hour, over 11 thousand dollars a year. What's wrong with that?

Apart from the obvious?

Hey, good thinking! So we can also tag on that camping chairs = global warming to the argument.

That's ever so slightly tongue-in-cheek although I do loathe camping chairs. Do something worthwhile why the fuck don't you. And yes that's both to the people that fill their sims with them and the saps that sit in them. Ain't Second Life great - come sit in a camping chair and waste your time, computer and electricity in the process! Oh and bow to Dwellnor, he's been expecting you.

I don't understand what you think is so obvious.

I am looking for some hard numbers proving that the income earned from camping is less than the cost. I haven't heard any so far.


Heh heh - someone down at the camp chairs appears to be playing with Cadroe Murphy's Ringmaker. Instead of a free sandbox, they have found one that pays - not bad, eh?

Put your main account's products in your picks, mixed with some other picks to help disguise the identity.

Well, when I say "wrong"... there's the ISP bill to add in as well, that's going to depend on the deal you have individually. Possibly costs from repair if you leave your machine on far longer than it needs to be and it conks out. But really - the idea of people basically ending up better off by consuming energy and adding absolutely nothing to anything, though not on a "citizen's wage" basis, restricted to those who have the resources in the first place to engage in it, isn't that just a tad socially destructive?

Well, that logic is super if you go by "I'm using this to pay my power and cable bills" rather then "I'm using this as extra fun cash in SL".

You end up with more SL resources than somebody who pays for L$ because you use up a load of energy when they didn't. I don't think that's really the way to go.

I have my computer on 24/7, as I'm sure others do. Using it as server or other things, running SL doesn't hurt.

Considering the amount of bandwidth SL sucks up on a constant basis, that is a *very* debatable statement. Not to mention the amount of sim load incurred on the region server to record your waste of space.

- Newfie

It really doesn't suck up that much. Or rather, it doesn't in comparison to my internet connection, and most of the sims with chairs are private sims.

It's a lot more than a Mountain Dew.

Actually it pays me $300+ USD a month.
Before that was just one character sitting for 20 hours.
But if I put 5 out on a render farm, which I already have setup, and let it go. It gives just above $300 a month.

They claim 5 accounts per household. (billing address)
Have two, a business and a home or some setup like that, then that is legally 10 accounts. There is no juggling accounts involved as some think.
That doubles to 600+ a month. Usualy more but there is server down time of course.

That more than pays for the electric and interent. And then some.
Money I can put toward other things in life.
For just checking the accounts once or twice a day to see if its still sitting. Thats not a bad bonus to my paycheck.

*Render farm is something for another job I do. I can multitask it since only about 25% of the cpu is used by sl on each computer. The rest I use for rendering digital art. It's always on anyway.

Of course, this will only last until the $L deflates totally, when more and more people use camping chairs, thus making it not worth their while.

Ladies and gentlemen, we now have our gold farmers... paging IGE, paging IGE, come in IGE, you are needed in Pod Sim 1.